Per esprimere al meglio la tua creatività hai bisogno di strumenti che ti permettano la massima funzionalità e flessibilità del lavoro. Con i nuovi potenti strumenti e l'interfaccia grafica sempre più versatile, Paint Shop Pro 5 è il programma di grafica che meglio si avvicina alla tua creatività.
Paint Shop Pro 5 è l’ultima versione di uno dei più conosciuti ed apprezzati programmi di grafica per Windows. Le sue caratteristiche lo rendono un ottimo prodotto sia per chi lo utilizza a livello amatoriale, ma soprattutto per chi lo utilizza professionalmente.
Le principali caratteristiche della nuova versione sono:
Multiple layer support CMYK color separations
Enhanced file format support A new multiple-level undo history
Direct digital camera support Pressure-sensitive tablet support
Realistic Picture Tube brushes
Paint Shop Pro 5 contiene anche il software ANIMATION SHOP.
Requisiti minimi di sistema:
PC 486 o superiore, Windows 95/NT, 12MB di ram, 10MB di spazio libero su Hard Disk, scheda video 256 colori. E’ comunque consigliata una configurazione con Pentium® MMX, Windows 95/NT o Windows 98, 32MB di ram, 40MB di spazio libero su Hard Disk, scheda video 1024x768 24-bit.
GLI STRUMENTI DI LAVORO
Painting tools
- Complete collection of drawing and painting tools, including paintbrush, pen, pencil,
- marker, crayon, chalk, charcoal and airbrush
- Full brush tip control of brush size, shape, opacity, hardness, density and step size, with
- brush size preview
- Create Adobe Photoshop-compatible custom-shaped brush tips
- Paint with a variety of preset brush textures
- Picture Tube brushes allow you to easily paint with realistic graphic elements
- Easily clone and paint with any area of your image
- Flood fill tool allows solid fills, as well as custom patterned, linear, rectangular, sunburst
- and radial gradients
- Normal and Bezier line tools
- Includes line and filled object shapes
- Text tool allows you to place multiple text lines on any layer
- Powerful eraser tool allows you to edit your last painting operation
Layers
Create composite images with multiple layers support
Comprehensive blend mode controls control layer interactivity
Layer grouping, naming, ordering and visibility for efficient editing
Transparency locking and variable opacity
Layer mask linking and toggle
Merge and flatten layers to combine elements together
Easily adjust a layer's position on the image
Selection tools
- Regular, freehand, point to point or smart edge selection tools
- Easily add to or subtract from selection areas
- Select areas from an existing mask
- Matting options include defringe and remove black or white mattes
- Contract, expand, feather and grow selection areas
- Set transparent colors within a selection
- Convert selections to seamless patterns
- Promote selections to new layers
- Load and save selections to disk or alpha channels
- Float and defloat selection areas
- Magic Wand tool to select an area of a particular color, hue, or brightness
Image adjustments
- Multiple-level undo, with viewable history
- Free-form layer or image deformations to easily translate, scale, rotate, skew and add
- perspective
- Retouching tools let you soften, sharpen, smudge and emboss
- Photography tools allow you to dodge and burn images for exposure correction, and
- adjust color levels
- Easily flip, mirror, rotate your graphics
- On-screen adjustable cropping
- Resize images based on physical size or percentages
- Resizing options include smart, bilinear, bicubic and pixel sizing
- Powerful mask options
- Combine images together with Image Arithmetic
Image enhancements
- Includes special effects filters, such as buttonize, chisel, cutout and drop shadow
- Powerful image deformations include circle, cylinder, pentagon, perspective, pinch, punch
- and skew
- Standard image filters include Gaussian blur, edge, noise, sharpen, dilate, emboss,
- erode, hot wax and mosaic
- Full third-party plug-in filter support for packages such as The Andromeda Series and
- Eye Candy
- Create your own image filters!
Color support
- Full control over brightness and contrast, highlight, midtone and shadow, as well as HSL
- and RGB values
- Preview all adjustments before applying them
- Use the Color Replacement tool to easily replace selected colors
- The Eye Dropper allows you to easily select colors from your image
- Increase or decrease the number of colors
- Apply custom palettes to multiple images
- Powerful image and monitor gamma correction
- Create and print CMYK color separations
- Separate, edit and combine CMYK, HSL and RGB color channels on screen
- Powerful histogram support let you equalize and stretch RGB and luminance values
- Independent Color Management (ICM) 2.0 support is available under Windows 98 or
- Windows NT 5.0
External device support
- Pressure-sensitive tablet support
- Direct interface support for Kodak DC40, DC50 and DC120 digital cameras
- Enhanced TWAIN device support for scanners and digital cameras
- Full support of Adobe Photoshop import/export plug-ins
Web support
- Intuitive palette options with transparency previews
- Internet graphics support includes transparent GIF, and progressive JPG and PNG
- formats
- Includes Animation Shop for creating and optimizing animated GIF files
Powerful utilities
- Batch file format conversion saves you time and energy
- Built-in screen capture utility allows you to easily capture a variety of screen elements
- with "hot key" activation
- Microsoft Explorer-style thumbnail image browser makes finding and identifying graphic
- files effortless
Animation Shop
- Intuitive and convenient filmstrip-style interface
- Native 24-bit image editing mode for photo-realistic color editing
- Automatic full frame regeneration of opened files
- Support for transparency in animations
- On-screen image editing functionality allows for simple touchups and frame modification
- The Optimization Wizard gives precise control over completed animations
- The Animation Wizard creates new animations from existing animated and still-image
- files
- Cut and copy frames from file to file, or within the same file, with drag-and-drop editing
- Position drag-and-drop edits with a "hot spot" cursor or to a snap-to frame grid
- Propagate Paste copies edits from the target frame to selected frames
- Cut and Paste frames between Animation Shop and Paint Shop Pro
- Multiple-level undo allows you to reverse any number of edits
- Customizable frame transitions and effects
- Customizable text effects include back lit, highlight, flag, drop shadow and bounce
- Automatically renders image and text effects for instant preview
- Open over 40 different image file formats
File format support
- Over 40 graphic file formats supported, including BMP, CDR*, CGM*, CLP, CMX*, CUT,
- DCX*, DIB, DRW*, DXF*, EMF, EPS+, FPX, GEM*, GIF, HGL*, IFF, IMG, JPG, KDC*,
- LBM, MAC, MSP, PBM, PCD*, PCT, PCX, PGM, PIC, PIC, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP,
- RAS, RAW, RLE, SCT, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG, WPG (Vector)*
- Read Only, + Write Only
- Paint Shop Pro file format (PSP) includes a full range of file compression options and
- multiple-layer support
- Supports Kodak's Digital Camera, FlashPix and Photo CD formats
- Full multiple-layer Adobe Photoshop file format (PSD) support
- Support of Adobe Photoshop file format plug-ins